Nesil Caliskan, MP for Barking
Nesil Caliskan has been an MP since 2024.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In government
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government) (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government) | 2026 | |
| Comptroller (HM Household) (Whip, House of Commons) (HM Household) | 2025 to 2026 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Railways Bill | 2026 | |
| Committee of Selection | 2025 to 2026 | |
| Licensing Hours Extensions Bill | 2025 | |
| Planning and Infrastructure Bill | 2025 | |
| Finance Bill | 2025 | |
| Public Accounts Committee | 2024 to 2025 |
Source: UK Parliament Members API · Parliament’s own page
Declared interests
MPs must publish certain paid work, gifts, donations and other interests. This is a record of what they declared, not a suggestion that anything is wrong.
Nesil Caliskan has 1 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Land and property (within or outside the UK) | Property in London | 29 Jul 2024 |
Source: Register of Members’ Financial Interests · Parliament’s own page
Questions
MPs can ask ministers questions in writing. The questions show what an MP is working on, which votes cannot.
Nesil Caliskan asked 8 written questions in the last 12 months.
Who they asked
Latest questions
Source: Written Questions API · Updated 4 Oct 2026
Expenses
MPs claim back money for running an office and working in two places. An independent body, IPSA, publishes every claim. This is what was paid in 2025-26.
62 claims. For comparison, across the 657 MPs in IPSA’s file the middle MP was paid £18,469 and the average was £19,699.
Source: IPSA, individual business costs data · About this data
Election result and area
Nesil Caliskan represents Barking. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.
Labour
votes ahead of second place
of people who could vote did
Nesil Caliskan won with 44% of the votes, and Clive Peacock (Reform UK) came second with 14%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nesil Caliskan | Labour | 16,227 | 44.5% |
| Clive Peacock | Reform UK | 5,173 | 14.2% |
| Simon Anthony | Green Party | 4,988 | 13.7% |
| Julie Redmond | Conservative | 4,294 | 11.8% |
| Muhammad Asim | Workers Party of Britain | 3,578 | 9.8% |
| Charley Hasted | Liberal Democrat | 1,015 | 2.8% |
| Dee Dias | Independent | 753 | 2.1% |
| Lucy Baiye-Gaman | Christian Peoples Alliance | 449 | 1.2% |
2024 General Election, on today’s boundaries. Source: House of Commons Library via the Members API.
Your area at a glance
Median gross weekly pay, 2025. Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.
Share of people aged 16 to 64, August 2026. Source: ONS and DWP claimant count.
How they vote
In the last 12 months Nesil Caliskan took part in 194 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Nesil Caliskan voted the same way as their party in 192 of the 192 votes where parties gave instructions (100%), and went the other way in 0.
What does this mean?
Parties tell their MPs how to vote. Most MPs usually follow that. A high or low count says nothing on its own about whether an MP is good or bad, and we do not rank MPs by it. We only count votes where parties gave instructions, not free votes. How we count it
Recent votes
| Date | Vote | They voted | Compared with party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Sep | End of life for terminally ill adults: the first main vote | Against | Free vote |
| 11 Sep | A vote to end a debate | Against | Free vote |
| 10 Sep | Social housing: an attempt to block it | Against | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
See every vote on Parliament’s site
Has this changed over time?
View data table
| Month | This MP | Party average |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Nov 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Dec 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Jan 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Feb 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Mar 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Apr 26 | 100% | 100% |
| May 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Jun 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Jul 26 | 100% | 99% |
| Sep 26 | 100% | 100% |
Source: Commons Votes API
This page states what the record shows. It does not say why an MP voted as they did. How we calculate this